21 archives found for "hybrid"

Hypoplectrus is diverse genus from the grouper family that has somewhere around 18 species. These fishes (known commonly as “hamlets”) are famous among evolutionary biologists for their complex evolutionary history, driven strongly by sexual selection. In a given region, [...]

The above fish was collected at around 120 feet in Kiritimati (AKA Christmas Island) on the eastern edge of Polynesia and was suggested to be a hybrid of the only two species of Apolemichthys present in this region: the Goldflake Angelfish (A. xanthopunctatus) and Griffis’ Angelfish (A. [...]

Hybrid Chaetodon tinkeri x Chaetodon miliaris In October 2011, Robert Whitton and Richard Pyle found a small juvenile hybrid butterflyfish while conducting a rebreather dive in deep water in the Hawaiian Islands. It was the first hybrid Chaetodn tinkeri x C. miliaris reported since the early [...]

Of the twenty recognized species of Paracheilinus wrasses, few are quite so revered and expensive within the aquarium trade as P. attenuatus, known variably as the Seychelles Flasherwrasse, African Attenuate Flasherwrasse or Diamond-tail Flasherwrasse. This piscine rarity has a limited range in the [...]

It’s not every day that a new species of large pufferfish is described from Indo-Pacific coral reefs, but such is the case with the recent description of Arothron multilineatus, a girthy fish documented from Japan and the Red Sea. Reported to reach a length of nearly 18 inches and adorned in an [...]